I'm pretty sure they mean limitations of the previous generation, which is pretty much what they always refer to when they show a Mac as "2x faster" or whatever, and they're definitely achieving that, except in the realm of storage capacity, but then that's conspicuous by its absence. But considering you can connect up to 36 Thunderbolt arrays then that's a potential for 36x 10 bay enclosures, each with 4tb drives, that's 1,440tb of data. Limitation… blown!
I'm pretty sure they mean limitations of the previous generation, which is pretty much what they always refer to when they show a Mac as "2x faster" or whatever, and they're definitely achieving that, except in the realm of storage capacity, but then that's conspicuous by its absence. But considering you can connect up to 36 Thunderbolt arrays then that's a potential for 36x 10 bay enclosures, each with 4tb drives, that's 1,440tb of data. Limitation blown!
The FirePros are better than the cards offered with previous Mac Pros, plus there's two of them as standard. Limitation blown!
12-core Xeon E5 is (somewhat) faster than 2x 6-core Xeons of the past. Limitation blown!
It's going to be an impressive little machine for what it can do in the size it can do it in, as well as possible efficiency and noise as factors. It'll be the most powerful small computer out there in fact, but that comes with its own set of limitations, but we'll have to wait for rev 2 to see those new limitations blown away
I'm not saying otherwise, I'm just pointing out exactly what Apple means by "blowing away limitation after limitation".
12-core Xeon E5 is (somewhat) faster than 2x 6-core Xeons of the past. Limitation… blown!
It's going to be an impressive little machine for what it can do in the size it can do it in, as well as possible efficiency and noise as factors. It'll be the most powerful small computer out there in fact, but that comes with its own set of limitations, but we'll have to wait for rev 2 to see those new limitations blown away
Only if you want to use them all simultaneously; it's just a dirty example of how you can spin the lack of internal storage anyway. But out of the box you can hook up a mountain of thunderbolt drives, no need to add any dumb PCIe cards like some prehistoric coal-burning monstrosity, we're talking about the future here!
How many of those were offered by Apple as options when buying your Mac Pro? None! Hand me the big stamp with "irrelevant to marketing" on it please!
Nonsense! We only rate machines as a percentage improvement over the previous generation from the same company. What are you, a liberal or something?
no need to add any dumb PCIe cards like some prehistoric coal-burning monstrosity, we're talking about the future here!
Point still being, the limitations that Apple cares about are gone, besides which, the quoted "blowing away limitation after limitation" doesn't actually state that this is a new machine without any limitations, only that at least two limitations have been blown away
Under the extremely narrow definition of "limitation" being "whatever Apple didn't feel like doing," I agree. It had nothing to do with what would be actually doable.
Just to nitpick: As far as "TB can run X drives out of the Box!" TB can't run any drives out of the box--there are no TB drives--you have to have a controller. At least with PCIe you can keep the drives in the box you already have
Only PCIe and PCIe-based controllers can run drives out of the box